The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 42

Nobody; doubted but the Fairy gave herein a very extraordinary sample of her art, that the Princess, while she continued sleeping, might have nothing to fear from any curious people.

Who acts: Nobody, Fairy, beast · What happens: doubt, give, continue, sleep, have, fear · To what, where: Princess, extraordinary sample, nothing, art

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, Fairy, beast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 doubted	nsubj
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 doubted	punct
3	doubted	doubt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 doubted	conj
8	herein	herein	ADV	_	7 gave	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sample	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 extraordinary	advmod
11	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sample	amod
12	sample	sample	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 art	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 art	nmod:poss
15	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sample	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Princess	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 Princess	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 doubted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 continued	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 continued	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 continued	nsubj
23	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 doubted	parataxis
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 continued	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sleeping	conj
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 have	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 fear	mark
30	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 nothing	acl
31	from	from	ADP	_	34 people	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 people	det
33	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 people	amod
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fear	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 doubted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	doubt	participle	Nobody	the Princess		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the Fairy	a extraordinary sample of beast's art	herein property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Theme
3	continue	past	beast			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sleep	gerund	beast not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	might	beast not said here	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	fear	to-infinitive	beast not said here	nothing not said here	from any curious people	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	sample			beast's art		nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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